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UK - Shure Distribution UK (SDUK) has announced the end of its distribution contract with US based case manufacturer SKB, by mutual agreement.

Shure Distribution will continue to supply SKB products until the New Year, and customers can be assured that they will continue to receive the same high levels of service and support until then. From the 1st January 2014 SKB Europe, based in the Netherlands, will take over distribution.

"SKB make cases for a plethora of applications, many of them outside our core focus of music, pro audio and broadcast. With the continued expansion of their range we have decided that the interests of both of our companies are best served by alternative distribution arrangements," commented Peter James, SDUK managing director. "This decisio

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Canada - Audient has achieved a milestone with the sale of its 500th ASP8024 console, installed in a studio in rural British Columbia this year. Up and running in early autumn, studio owner, engineer/producer Rob Dewar is already reaping the benefits of his 36-channel desk.

"It has provided a centralised input rig and return buss matrix, which has made my mostly single-handed recording and production work here much easier in terms of flow," he says.

"I have set up my most-used inputs (my drum kit mics, four mic'ed guitar amps in booths, an M/S mic pair for acoustic guitars, a direct-patched bass, etc) on a semi-permanent basis, and I have built a rolling mobile remote control rig for the DAW, and a set of satellite headphone 'pods', so most of the time, I can just move into position, arm some tracks and let 'er rip, when inspiration strikes, without any serious

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UK - Wicked, the award-winning musical that tells the untold story of the Witches of Oz, has taken to the road for its first UK and Ireland tour kicking off in Manchester and winding its spellbinding way around the British Isles and Ireland well into 2015.

No stranger to the show, Creative Technology's (CT) seven-year relationship with Wicked's successful West End tenure at the Apollo Victoria Theatre is continuing with the Show's touring side in providing video projection and a full replay system for the supporting imagery.

Supplying Wicked UK Tour Productions two Panasonic PTDZ133 projectors, both of which are positioned at the front of the Circle and aimed at the stage, CT is also providing main and back up Catalyst Media Servers to output the video to the projectors. CT's project engineer Chris Higgins assisted projection designer Elaine J McCarthy and her productio

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Indochine X PixMob Fan Immersion

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's - 40 thousand LED pixels on a ceiling!!! Indochine's whirlwind tour transports fans to another level of the live experience - immersing them from floor to ceiling with PixMob's X4 wristbands, and an LED ceiling made entirely of its NOVA Minis! With the vision of Indochine's creative team, PixMob used its LED fan-technology to turn attendees and venues into an ocean of effects, and a starry sky of LED magic. Très très cool!

Read more about the Indochine tour in the latest issue of LSi

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UK - The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester has invested in a new Eos-family lighting system, with two ETC Eos Titanium (Ti) desks at the helm, and an Ion console and a Remote Processor Unit for backup.

Richard Owen, head of lighting at the Royal Exchange, was one of the major decision makers for the purchase. He says, "We were looking for something that had a lot of future proofing, so it would still be working well in 20 years' time, and could handle a lot of intelligent fixtures. We asked the opinions of many of the incoming lighting directors who come to work here, with the overwhelming strength of opinion that ETC - and in particular the Eos line - is becoming the industry standard."

The Royal Exchange has four permanent board operators, plus freelancers who come in every so often to assist when necessary. All of them will need to operate the main desk and the

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UK - Aylesbury Buckinghamshire LED screen and visuals specialists EMTO has specified and supplied LED screen solutions to two high profile club installations in central London - Amika in South Molton Street and Egg at Kings Cross.

Both clubs are radically different in vibe and demographic. Amika attracts a trend setting and sometimes celebrity crowd who like to hang out on one of central London's most opulent and fashionable streets; while the charismatic raw industrial chic of Egg attracts a young crowd who love the music, mixology and magic created by of some the best DJs and performers on the EDM scene.

Both venues approached EMTO's Wes Matthews because they wanted high quality LED technology installed with some flourish, design and purpose rather than just for the sake of it!

When the installation at Amika received the green light, they wanted it in immediately, so Matth

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USA - XL Video UK and US operation XL Video Inc. combined resources and expertise to provide LED screens, Catalyst control and crew, plus a dynamic high production value video design to impress followers of the Christ For All Nations (CFaN) Ministry for two shows staged in the Amway Centre in Orlando, Florida.

CFaN is led by the high profile internationally known Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, renowned for his gospel missions throughout Africa. According to his website, Bonnke has personally preached to over 120m people and led 72m in the prayer to salvation.

XL Video UK's project manager Paul 'Macca' McCauley was approached by CFaN's UK/US based technical production manager Paul 'Boyo' Manuel to provide something different and innovative in terms of video reinforcement for the shows and a system design - developed in conjunction with TAIT - that would not only WOW the crowds, bu

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USA - GLP comes to LDI 2013 with a host of brand new products and preview showings this year, welcoming everybody from their stand # 675.

First is the Volkslicht Spot which, following its recent launch announcement, brings GLP's award winning LED technology to a smaller spot fixture, perfect for shorter throw distances or those on a cost conscious budget.

The feature set of the Volkslicht Spot includes a motorized iris, rotating gobo wheel with seven positions plus open, a static gobo wheel with nine positions plus open, a rotating prism, and motorised focus all within a small body so that it can be placed discretely. The output features a beam angle of 15 degrees, whilst the weight has been kept to just 33 lbs.

Making a preview showing for the first time in the USA, is the impression X4 XL which uses 55 RGBW LEDs and offers a zoom of 7° to 50°. It works equally well

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Italy - Record numbers attended the arena for Gianni Morandi's concert on 7 and 8 October. The show was announced several months earlier and was a sell-out. There was plenty of room for thrills and his songs, which have become veritable Italian music classics since the 1960s. There was also room for memories, shared with his friend Raffaella Carrà, and even time for an unintentional comic duet with Fiorello, who played the stooge and stole the show during the monologue. A series of other guests loved by Italians also took the stage.

Gianni Morandi enthralled the audience with his simplicity, his contact and direct relationship with them, and his desire to talk and be talked about without any self-praise. His music still moves children, parents and grandparents.

Even the Clay Paky lighting rig involved record numbers: Massimo Pascucci, lighting director for Mediaset, installed

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UK - Green Hippo has added new personnel adds to its team whilst familiar faces move up, in the very Green, Unit 307.

Simon Harris, a familiar face in the AV industry has been with Green Hippo for over six years, first joining as part of the sales team in a company of six, he quickly took on the role of head of training.

This December Harris takes on his new role as user experience manager bringing in new responsibilities. Harris is now the 'point of call', managing the interaction between users and the products and with his vast technical knowledge bridging the gap between end-users and development.

Ryan Brown, who joined the company just over a year ago, making his debut at the 2012 PLASA show London, started as a product specialist, also working with support and testing. After quickly establishing himself as a confident and technical individual, matched with his character

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Rock Honours - Heavy metal stars Black Sabbath triumphed at this year's Classic Rock Roll of Honour, picking up three prizes including the living legend award. The Birmingham band also won album of the year for 13 and event of the year, after 13 topped album charts worldwide and scored them their biggest US hit. Previous living legend winners include ZZ top, Jimmy Page and Iggy Pop. Following their Hyde Park live shows and a Glastonbury headline set this summer The Rolling Stones were named band of the year, while best new band went to The Temperance Movement.

.Low Key - The French government presented singer Bob Dylan with the country's highest award, the Legion of Honour, in a brief ceremony in Paris. Presenting him with the award, Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti said he was a hero for young people hungry for justice and independence. After the speech,

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UK - LumenRadio and their long time OEM partner LITE worked together with Philips Lighting and Balfour Beatty Living Places to create a beautiful new lighting as a part of the redevelopment project for Coventry called "Broadgate Redevelopment Coventry.

Philips Lighting along with their value added partner LITE, specified a large system of Philips iColorGraze, Philips iColorBurst and Philips iColorBlast luminaries to wash the full expanse of the buildings and surrounded environment with intense, bright blasts of color. LITE also chose to specify a system of LumenRadio CRMX Nova transmitter and receivers to reliable control the lighting on the buildings facade, balcony railways and the Godiva Statue.

Using the CRMX technology in this installation provided a large number of advantages to both the installer and the buildings/statue themselves; notably ease of installation

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Australia - For the first time in a decade at an Australian trade exhibition Entech Connect will have a Live Audio Zone. This live audio demonstration area will showcase some of the finest talent and finely tuned speaker systems in the market. With a number of sessions across two days and several audio brands already locked in.

This feature is a first for the Australian industry and will be a programmed audio segment dedicated to the demonstration of loudspeakers and will provide visitors the chance to listen to products in a real-world environment.

"A live audio demonstration zone is something that has been missing from industry trade events. We want attendees to not only have the opportunity to view products, but also to experience their sound capabilities first hand," commented Stephen Dallimore, Entech Connect event manager.

Visitors will be able to experience

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UK- Sennheiser UK has presented its first annual scholarship award to Buckinghamshire New University Audio and Music Production student, Bradley Rolling.

The scholarship is presented to students based on their academic performance in the first year and is part of an education partnership agreement between the University in High Wycombe and Sennheiser.

It was presented following interviews between five shortlisted students and Phil Cummings, Sennheiser's marketing projects manager.

The award included a cheque for £1,500, along with a Neumann TLM 103 microphone, and a pair of 25th anniversary Sennheiser HD25 headphones.

Bradley said, "The money will be really useful as I have plans to set up my own music production and mixing business and develop a website for it.

"The professional kit from Sennheiser and Neumann will be great for both my degree work and fo

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Argentina - Lighting designer Carlos Gaber used 10 Robe LEDBeam 100s and four Robe CityFlex 48s, together with other luminaires for a special event to launch the solo career of local artist Lali Espósito, at La Trastienda club in Buenos Aires.

Carlos marked several positions on the stage where Lali had to stand 'on her marks' during her performance to create some great theatrical scenes and effects. He also consulted both the choreographer and the costume designer whilst programming the lighting to ensure all elements of the show were in sync. Although there were other fixed and moving lights on the rig, the Robin LEDBeam 100s and CityFlex 48s were right at the core of the action.

Four of the Robin LEDBeam 100s were hung on a central truss and the other six were positioned vertically - three each side of an LED screen.

The CityFlex 48s were used downstage as footlights with

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France / Italy - SSL has started to roll out its commercial distribution network for the live sector. Distribution for the SSL Live console in France will be handled by SSL France with Juke Box Ltd as the official SSL Live dealer. The console will be distributed in Italy by Cablateam.

"SSL has been established for a long time in both France and Italy," says Philippe Guerinet, director of international sales for SSL. "We have been working closely for many years with Giovanni Blasi in Italy and JB Lierre in France for our music products, so the SSL Live was a natural addition to their portfolios. The conclusion of some of the first commercial sales in these territories is clear evidence that we are on the right track."

"Continuing the very successful cooperation between our two companies over the past 10 years, we are delighted to embark on a new adventu

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Germany - A massive rig of almost 900 Clay Paky fixtures has been utilised to track and illuminate a fleet of BMW's latest car designs for a series of dynamic and fast-paced shows held during the Frankfurt Motor Show 2013.

The ambitious lighting production - headed by Martin Kuhn and Berlin's NIYU media project - utilised a vast array of Clay Paky's latest fixtures, including 115 Alpha Wash 1500s, 24 Alpha Spot 1500s, 25 Alpha Profile 1500s, 18 Alpha Beam 1500s, 28 Sharpys, 8 Sharpys Washes, 131 QWO 800 STs, 28 Alpha Wash 700s, and 504 A.leda Wash K10s.

One main requirement for the lighting design was to be able to dynamically highlight the cars driving around the track. The 504 K10s multicolour RGBW LEDs delivered a full range of vivid colours as well as excellent shades of white. Equipped with a motorised and fully controllable 14°-70° - the fixtures were placed at e

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Based on the popularity and success of the Showline SL BAR 600 Series of LED luminaires, Philips Entertainment has introduced the compact and high-powered SL BAR 620 LED luminaire. Offering the same output and colour clarity as the SL BAR 640 and SL BAR 660 luminaires, the SL BAR 620 is a powerful two-foot linear fixture utilizing 12 RGBW LED light engines for a uniform and homogenized output designed for a wide variety of entertainment lighting applications, and it will be on display at LDI in the Philips Entertainment Booth # 1614.

"We have found that designers and specifiers worldwide are very pleased with the SL BAR 640 and SL BAR 660, yet they keep asking for a small product in the same range," said Brad Schiller, Showline product marketing manager. "By providing the same quality and features of the larger units in a more compact package, we are thrilled to be able

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USA - Wireless Solution Sweden will be at LDI 2013 with its new G4S software as part of USA distributor's A.C.T. Lighting Booth 1215. On display will be the new W-DMX G4S, with new improved adaptive technology on all models to avoid interference as well Data-Safe MK2 and Invisi-Wire MK2. On all F Models G4S is standard shipped with full RDM implementation.

The complete A.C.T. booth will be controlled with 6 DMX universes running all Clay Paky fixtures. In addition, a complete setup of RDM Control with the W-DMX BlueBox RDM Controller will display the Clay Paky Glow Up with iPad control.

The W-DMX G4S platform is a step change in the popular G4 software, packing improvements across the board. From smarter Adaptive Frequency Hopping to greater resiliency, W-DMX G4S keeps even the most demanding show running.

G4S also brings new RDM functionality as standard in the entire trans

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Australia - The Sydney Opera House has recently installed four Robert Juliat Cyrano 2500W HMI follow spots into the Joan Sutherland Theatre (formerly known as the Opera Theatre) in which the Australian Ballet and Opera Australia reside.

The two resident companies had begun to require more output as the previous follow spots could not keep up with the lighting rigs which were continually getting brighter. The Cyrano, with its narrow beam angle suited to long throw distances and unique dimmer shutter, was the obvious choice of replacement.

Normally a follow spot position is located at the back of the auditorium with a traditional follow spot stand but at this venue the follow spot position is actually built into the roof with the lamps mounted on the floor of the Theatres ceiling.

"This presented us with a major issue in getting the operator low enough to operate the Cyra

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USA - Los Angeles based ADJ Products has revealed three new professional moving head fixtures this week by way of one-minute "sneak peek" videos on their You Tube channel (http://www.youtube.com/adjlighting).

These three new products along with 30 more professional lighting fixtures will make their debut at the LDI 2013 Show, held at the Las Vegas Convention Centre this week (booth #725).

"We were so excited about our new wave of pro products that we wanted to start sharing them before the show. These new moving heads are aimed at lighting designers, night clubs and installers looking to make a big impact with a professional looking light show all on a real world budget," said Alfred Gonzales, national sales manager of ADJ. "We think these new quality-driven pro products will really 'turn heads' (pun intended). They fit perfectly into our range of qual

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UK - This year, Fleetwood Mac have been on a major tour of the USA and Europe that encompasses the large arena-size venues with the likes of Jones Beach in Wantagh, NY, the beachside theatre that can require some creative planning from a production team to load-in a full show rig. At the time of writing, the fourteen date leg of the tour in Australia and New Zealand has been cancelled to allow bassist and founder member, John McVie to receive treatment for cancer.

Not for the first time, Chaos Visual Productions supplied the production with the video hardware. As lighting designer, Paul 'Arlo' Guthrie remarks, "Video features in almost the entire set so getting the balance between lighting content and IMAG was crucial. Incorporating video successfully is always something of a balancing act. I feel we have brought a modern look to the visuals without distracting from what ha

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